Cultural Development Foundation

17/05/2022

#Repost Renowned experts & cultural professionals from the Caribbean such as Odini Sutherland Danielle Dieffenthaller Richard Sinista Nattoo, Pascale Solages, and many more, will raise awareness & encourage the reflection on existing barriers, inequalities, and challenges faced by women artists and cultural practitioners to create more gender-responsive, inclusive and resilient cultural and creative industries.

Join the online debate organised by UNESCO and UN Women Caribbean

When: Thursday, May 19, 2022
9am and 12pm (Jamaica time, UTC-5)
Where: The event will take place via Zoom.
Register here: https://bit.ly/3FzCp2L

The event is hosted as part of the #Transcultura programme and in alignment with the UN Women Afro-descendant Women’s Programme.

Raymona Henry-Wynne, Executive Director, Cultural Development Foundation is one of the panelists.

#Women #GenderEquality #Caribbean #Creativity United Nations Caribbean UN Trinidad & Tobago United Nations Guyana UN Barbados and OECS Unesco Caribbean Unesco Haït

17/05/2022

Here's an opportunity for Artists and Creatives! Get your dossiers ready!!

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION in the 9th Edition of the Francophonie Games 2023, National Pre-selection for the Cultural Competition

CATEGORIES

Song
Dance
Painting
Photography
Sculpture
Literature
Storytelling

Deadline for submission: May 31st, 2022

Read the Press Release for additional information.

16/05/2022

May is observed as Reading Month. Let’s Celebrate our Saint Lucian Writers. Let’s promote literacy!! Read More, Read Local, Read Caribbean. 📚📖📖

This installment of LITERARY HIGHLIGHT features Vladimir Lucien, award-winning Writer/Poet of poetry publication, “Sounding Ground”. This is a collection that is alive with its conscious tensions: between divergent family visions of respectability and revolt, tradition and modernity. It is enriched by an instinctive humanity that encompasses socially aspiring ancestors, an authoritarian headmaster, and the rebellious children of the poor – the “negative elements” of the squatter settlements. There is, too, amidst a young man’s zest in life, a tender awareness of the inescapability of the frailty of age. In the music of the poems themselves, there’s an enlivening counterpoint between the natural rhythms of creole speech and the metric organisation of the line and its patterns of sound.

In 2014, this book was launched as part of the CDF’s Emancipation Programmes of Activities.

You can purchase your copy of “Sounding Ground” via https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/sounding-ground or Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sounding-Ground-Vladimir-Lucien/dp/1845232399

Follow on Instagram: @vladimirlucien

#SaintLucia #SaintLucianWriters #Authors #Readingmonth2022 #ReadLocal #SupportLocal #VladimirLucien #LiteraryHighlights

13/05/2022

The Eight National Carnival Queen 2022 Finalists 👑

The Eight National Carnival Queen 2022 Finalists 👑

12/05/2022

THE BIG REVEAL 👑 - THURSDAY 11TH MAY 2022

Tune in this evening for the BIG REVEAL!! 9:00 PM on CHOICE TV

11/05/2022

Pursue Your Degree in Cultural Studies at The UWI Cave Hill Campus

Interested in Culture, Creative and Performing Arts? Take a listen to the UWI Cave Hill Campus offerings.

11/05/2022

11/05/2022

SUPPORT OUR ARTISTS 🎤🎤🎤

#TheFutureOfCalypso

May 31st National Cultural Center

Bring friends .. it's a Huge Lime Indoor Outdoor!!

10/05/2022

THIS THURSDAY. Join the live stream on SALCC Facebook and Youtube!

09/05/2022

Pause for a few minutes and view the audiovisual featuring our very own Mac Donald Dixon, sharing with us the background to his new novel “A Scream in the Shadows” as part of the 2022 Virtual NGC Bocas Literary Festival - “Required Reading “under the theme “FOUR DAYS TO CHANGE THE WORLD.” 🌏🌏

#bocaslitfest2022 📗📗📗

08/05/2022

Salute to all the Mothers and warmest wishes to you on this special day🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷. Special greetings to the wonderful Moms at the Cultural Development Foundation💐💐💐💐💐. Do have a spectacular Day💃💃💃💃💃

#CDFCeleratesMothers #Mothersday2022

08/05/2022

Revised Calendar of Events for Lucian Carnival 2022

*New Date for Panorama: Sunday July 10, 2022

📢 PLEASE NOTE: This Calendar is subject to change. Please visit eventssaintlucia.com for updates.

SAINT LUCIA CARNIVAL- NOTHING SWEETER THAN THAT!!! 🇱🇨💃🏽🕺🏽🎶

@carnivalsaintlucia
@cdfsaintlucia
@travelsaintlucia
@caribcation
@exportsaintlucia
@saintluciagovernment

#saintluciacarnival #luciancarnival #carnivalsaintlucia #luciancarnival2022 #saintlucia🇱🇨 #stlucia #carnival2022 #nothingsweeterthanthat #carnivalcostumes #privateparties #boatrides #nationalevents #paradeofthebands #letherinspireyou

05/05/2022

Oprah pays tribute to a Caribbean Colossus: Sir Derek Walcott [1930 - 2017]

Oprah pays tribute to a Caribbean Colossus: Sir Derek Walcott [1930 - 2017]

Oprah pays tribute to Sir Derek Walcott [1930 - 2017], poet, playwright, painter, Nobel Laureate and quintessential Caribbean man.

28/04/2022

The importance of #IntangibleCulturalHeritage is not the cultural manifestation itself but rather the wealth of #knowledge and #skills that is #transmitted through it from one #generation to the next.

#TheLoveofMusic FLASHBACK: Junior Musicians at the Saint Lucia Taiwan Trade Fair 2015 - photos by Finola Jennings Clark

27/04/2022

#TriviaWednesday How many culture & creative industries related words can you find? 😃 Leave the answers in the comments below ⬇. #Culture #CreativeIndustries

26/04/2022

The Faculty of Culture, Creative and Performing Arts, The UWI, Cave Hill Campus presents...

26/04/2022

Cultural Development Foundation (CDF) St. Lucia

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Promoting Saint Lucian Culture

25/04/2022

Registration is open to apply 👑

Registration is open to apply 👑

25/04/2022

ANSWER: B. TEDDYSON JOHN ✅

#TriviaWednesday Do you know your local Cultural Icons? Take our poll and test your knowledge! Write your answers in the comments. #Culture #CreativeIndustries #CulturalIcons #CelebratingOurPeople 🇱🇨 🇱🇨

25/04/2022

Gwan Gwèk Kilté - Highlights from our 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Calendar #TeddysonJohn #CulturalIcon #Music 🇱🇨

Teddyson John (TJ) is a performing artiste who started his musical career at a young age, receiving early nurturing in the church. He has a passion for drumming, percussion, bass guitar and the keyboard, which he relentlessly pursued and eventually mastered on his own. Teddyson performed at the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival Main Stage, opening for renowned international artistes. In 2009, he headlined the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival, as part of Men of Soul including Jeffery Osborne, James Ingram and Bebe Winans backed by George Duke and his all-star band. In 2010, TJ and his band opened the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival for R&B artist Ne-Yo. He also performed at the Saint Lucia Jazz and Arts Festival in 2014 and 2016.

In 2007, TJ made a bold decision to step out his musical comfort zone of gospel and R & B and embrace the soca music genre, where he was crowned as Saint Lucia‟s first Groovy Soca Monarch. TJ‟s versatility in Jazz and Soca has afforded him the opportunity to perform on many international stages including Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Martinique, Barbados, Paris and Canada. His outstanding composition “Allez‟ received widespread national acclaim and propelled him to the finals of the 2016 International Soca Monarch Competition in Trinidad & Tobago.

The International Reggae and World Music Awards bestowed the award for Best Calypso/Soca Entertainer to TJ in 2016. His 2018 song “Vent‟ is one of his most popular, hitting the local and international airwaves and creating an unprecedented level of excitement among his fans. It has been dubbed ‟the people‟s anthem‟.

He has gone on to accomplish great things for his career and as an ambassador for Saint Lucia.

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#DouvanAnsanm #CelebratingOurPeople #SaintLucia #Independence43 #GwanGwèkKilté

23/04/2022

Gwan Gwèk Kilté - Highlights from our 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Calendar #ChristineSamuel #CulturalIcon #TheatreArtsTeacher #Dance #Choreography #VisualArts #Author #ChristyCreations 🇱🇨

Angela Christine Samuel is a multi-talented award-winning Saint Lucian artiste who for the past 40 years has earned recognition for her impressive skills in different artistic genres. Presently a retired teacher of Theatre Arts from the Castries Comprehensive Secondary School, she has received much national acclaim for her work as a dancer, dance tutor and choreographer. Today, Christine works under her Christy Creations brand, using her extensive artistic skills in the visual arts to produce original ladies bags and accessories that reflect vibrant Saint Lucian/Caribbean artistry and beauty. Every individual Christy Creations item is a bona fide original, one-of-a-kind with a great story of its own.

Christine uses creative hand painting, and carefully selected accessories on her personally designed and crafted bags to establish her unique design signature. Christy Creations has developed into an extraordinary brand, featured in the stores of Sea Island Cotton and Howelton Estate 1896, Saint Lucia. On June 30, 2018 Christine was recognized for her great work and received the Award of Excellence - Fashion Innovation from Caribbean Style & Culture in Washington DC, USA.

In 2021, she also published her first book. “Dance Footprints: 40 years of Dance in Saint Lucia is the first published historical record of dance and dancers in Saint Lucia. Starting from the sixties, a time of arts and cultural renaissance and coming to today’s dancescape, she treats us to vignettes of these creative artist and choreographers, their performances, studio spaces …, the long long-forgotten alongside the well-recognized stars of those stages.” [source: TheVoice]

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#DouvanAnsanm #CelebratingOurPeople #SaintLucia #Independence43 #GwanGwèkKilté

21/04/2022

Gwan Gwèk Kilté - Highlights from our 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Calendar #ChristineSamuel #CulturalIcon #TheatreArtsTeacher #Dance #Choreography #VisualArts #Author #ChristyCreations 🇱🇨

Angela Christine Samuel is a multi-talented award-winning Saint Lucian artiste who for the past 40 years has earned recognition for her impressive skills in different artistic genres. Presently a retired teacher of Theatre Arts from the Castries Comprehensive Secondary School, she has received much national acclaim for her work as a dancer, dance tutor and choreographer. Today, Christine works under her Christy Creations brand, using her extensive artistic skills in the visual arts to produce original ladies bags and accessories that reflect vibrant Saint Lucian/Caribbean artistry and beauty. Every individual Christy Creations item is a bona fide original, one-of-a-kind with a great story of its own.

Christine uses creative hand painting, and carefully selected accessories on her personally designed and crafted bags to establish her unique design signature. Christy Creations has developed into an extraordinary brand, featured in the stores of Sea Island Cotton and Howelton Estate 1896, Saint Lucia. On June 30, 2018 Christine was recognized for her great work and received the Award of Excellence - Fashion Innovation from Caribbean Style & Culture in Washington DC, USA.

In 2021, she also published her first book. “Dance Footprints: 40 years of Dance in Saint Lucia is the first published historical record of dance and dancers in Saint Lucia. Starting from the sixties, a time of arts and cultural renaissance and coming to today’s dancescape, she treats us to vignettes of these creative artist and choreographers, their performances, studio spaces …, the long long-forgotten alongside the well-recognized stars of those stages.” [source: TheVoice]

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#DouvanAnsanm #CelebratingOurPeople #SaintLucia #Independence43 #GwanGwèkKilté

21/04/2022

We aim to position Saint Lucia as a major #culturalhub in the region; a place where learning and skills are being constantly honed. So we are always on the lookout for #expertise in #dance, #theatrearts, #creativewriting, #music, #visualarts, #craft, #fashion, #spokenword and emerging forms. Click here ➡️ http://www.cdfstlucia.org/contact-us/ to join our database of creative partners, trainers, consultants, to give us the opportunity to do business with you.

20/04/2022

Highlights from the Steel Pan Music Theory Sessions ongoing at the CDF with Facilitator Gregory Piper | 2️⃣0️⃣/0️⃣4️⃣/2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣